When Vijaya, the first King of the island of Sri Lanka, arrived in Sri Lanka from India in 486 BC, he brought with him a flag with a symbol of a lion on it. Since then the Lion symbol played a ...

He was known as the ‘Lion of Kotte ... banner became the flag of the Dominion of Ceylon on its independence in 1948. C.W.W. Kannangara (1884 – 1969) was a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. Rising up ...